A study of building communities of practice to connect companies and communities

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K01905
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 07080:Business administration-related
• Research Institution: Kwansei Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: Matsumoto Yuichi 関西学院大学, 商学部, 教授 (10336951)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 実践共同体 / 実学集合型実践共同体 / トランスディシプリナリー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The theme of this study was how communities of practice, learning communities built inside and outside of organizations, connect with local communities. Previous studies on communities of practice have focused on knowledge creation and learning as a homogeneous group, but we believed that there remained an issue of how to involve people who are not "interested" in the subject matter. From this perspective, we were able to clarify the effectiveness of "transdisciplinary communities of practice," which are communities of practice built by diverse stakeholders such as researchers, business people, government officials, and local residents to solve problems, and the importance of appropriate management of such communities through case studies of problem-solving activities. The importance of the appropriate management of these communities was clarified by dealing with case studies of problem-solving.

Free Research Field

経営学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

これまでの実践共同体（学びのコミュニティ）研究は、その学習するテーマについて「関心のある」人々が集まり、同質的な集団として知識創造や学習を行うというものであったが、そのテーマに「関心のない」人々をどう巻き込んでいくかということについては課題が残っていた。多様なステイクホルダーによって構築する実践共同体、「実学集合型実践共同体」(トランスディシプリナリー実践共同体)では、多様なステイクホルダーが協働して問題解決と学習に取り組むことによって問題解決を行う事例を扱うことで、その適切なマネジメントの重要性を明らかにすることができ、今後の研究につなげるための理論的基盤をつくることができた。